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The Social Construction of Sexuality by Steven Seidman 9780393937800
Booksplease Price: £22.30Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Postmodernism and Social Theory by Steven Seidman 9781557862846
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £38.81A new division has emerged in the social sciences between modernists and their post-modern critics. The former defend the project of a general theory with secure analytical foundations; the latter... -
The New Social Theory Reader by Steven Seidman 9780415437707
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19This is the first anthology to thematize the dramatic upward and downward shifts that have created the new social theory, and to present this new and exciting body of work in a thoroughly... -
Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life Steven Seidman 9780415932073
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Gay life has become increasingly open in the last decade. In Beyond the Closet , Steven Seidman, a well-known author and leading scholar in sexuality, is the first to chronicle this lifestyle change... -
The Postmodern Turn: New Perspectives on Social Theory by Steven Seidman 9780521458795
Booksplease Price: £41.37The Postmodern Turn gathers together in one volume some of the most important statements of the postmodern approach to human studies. In addressing postmodern social theory and emphasising the social... -
The Postmodern Turn: New Perspectives on Social Theory by Steven Seidman 9780521452359
Booksplease Price: £95.79The Postmodern Turn gathers together in one volume some of the most important statements of the postmodern approach to human studies. In addressing postmodern social theory and emphasising the social... -
Psychoanalysis and Contemporary American Men: Gender Identity in a Time of Uncertainty by Steven Seidman
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Debate over gender and especially the lives of men is currently at a fever pitch, particularly in the United States. New perspectives that capture the complexity of men and a rapidly changing gender... -
Difference Troubles: Queering Social Theory and Sexual Politics by Steven Seidman 9780521599702
Booksplease Price: £35.47Difference Troubles, first published in 1997, examines the implications for social theory and sexual politics of taking difference seriously. It explores the trouble difference makes not only for the... -
Difference Troubles: Queering Social Theory and Sexual Politics by Steven Seidman 9780521590433
Booksplease Price: £95.79Difference Troubles, first published in 1997, examines the implications for social theory and sexual politics of taking difference seriously. It explores the trouble difference makes not only for the... -
Psychoanalysis and Contemporary American Men: Gender Identity in a Time of Uncertainty by Steven Seidman 9781138328501
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £128.68Debate over gender and especially the lives of men is currently at a fever pitch, particularly in the United States. New perspectives that capture the complexity of men and a rapidly changing gender... -
Queer Theory Sociology Steven Seidman (State University of New York at Albany) 9781557867407
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £43.36This book aims to productively engage the pioneering work of Queer theorists and point toe way towards a new sociological Queer studies. First book to bring the works of theorists and researchers... -
Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today Steven Seidman (State University of New York at Albany, USA) 9781119167587
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £27.77In the sixth edition of Contested Knowledge, social theorist Steven Seidman presents the latest topics in social theory and addresses the current shift of 'universalist theorists' to networks of... -
The Transformation of Modernity: Aspects of the Past, Present and Future of an Era by Michael Hviid Jacobsen 9781138631069
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.89This title was first published in 2001: For over 30 years it has been argued that contemporary society is undergoing a fundamental transformation. The portrait of the modern society or modernity... -
Studying Men and Masculinities by David Buchbinder 9780415578295
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98The late-twentieth-century anxiety about a 'crisis in masculinity' still persists today, particularly in English-speaking cultures. Studying Men and Masculinities offers an engaging and comprehensive... -
Capitalisms and Gay Identities Stephen Valocchi 9781138489899
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69In this important text, Stephen Valocchi brings capitalism back into the study of the gay and lesbian movement. He argues that to understand the collective identity, structure, strategies and goals... -
Intimacies: A New World of Relational Life Alan Frank (National Institute for the Psychotherapies, New York, USA) 9781138822641
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59In the last decade or so, there has been a shift in the popular and academic discussion of our personal lives. Relationships - and not necessarily marriage - have gravitated to the center of our... -
Workers of the World, Enjoy!: Aesthetic Politics from Revolutionary Syndicalism to the Global Justice Movement by Kenneth H. Tucker 9781592137657
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92The rise of the public sphere, as chronicled by social movements spanning the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuriesThe rise of the public sphere, as chronicled by social movements... -
Workers of the World, Enjoy!: Aesthetic Politics from Revolutionary Syndicalism to the Global Justice Movement by Kenneth H. Tucker
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £53.18The rise of the public sphere, as chronicled by social movements spanning the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuriesThe rise of the public sphere, as chronicled by social movements... -
The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory by Linda Nicholson
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.28The Second Wave collects many of the major essays of feminist theory of the past forty years, essays by the figures who have made key contributions to feminist theory during this period and have... -
In the Shadows: Sexuality, Pedagogy, and Gender Among Japanese Teenagers by Genaro Castro-Vazquez 9780739115374
Booksplease Price: £95.49In the Shadows is a study of masculinity, contraception, and sex education in Japanese youth culture. Dr. Castro-Vazquez presents a study based on research surrounding sexual education classes. The... -
Intersections between Feminist and Queer Theory by Diane Richardson 9781403945310
Booksplease Price: £92.20Queer ideas have unsettled other forms of exploring gender and sexuality in particular feminism and feminists have been significant critics. This book explores the debates between feminist and queer... -
Intersections between Feminist and Queer Theory by D. Richardson 9780230296350
Booksplease Price: £91.90Queer ideas have unsettled other forms of exploring gender and sexuality in particular feminism and feminists have been significant critics. This book explores the debates between feminist and queer... -
Children in the Global Sex Trade Julia O'Connell Davidson (University of Nottingham) 9780745629285
Booksplease Price: £18.18This compelling new book explores the complexities of the global child sex industry, but without falling into cliche and melodrama. Julia O'Connell Davidson draws attention to the multitude of ways... -
Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies by Stuart Hall 9781557867162
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £38.76Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies is a new sociology textbook which provides a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to the history, sociology and ideas of modern society. It has... -
Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity and the Commerce of Sex by Elizabeth Bernstein
Booksplease Price: £28.55Despite increased economic opportunities for women, sexual commerce has not only thrived in the Western world, it has diversified along technological, spatial, and social lines. For example,... -
The Lebanese Diaspora: The Arab Immigrant Experience in Montreal, New York, and Paris by Dalia Abdelhady 9780814707340
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The Lebanese are the largest group of Middle Eastern immigrants in the United States, and Lebanese immigrants are also prominent across Europe and the Americas. Based on over eighty interviews with... -
The Lebanese Diaspora: The Arab Immigrant Experience in Montreal, New York, and Paris by Dalia Abdelhady 9780814707333
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.52The Lebanese are the largest group of Middle Eastern immigrants in the United States, and Lebanese immigrants are also prominent across Europe and the Americas. Based on over eighty interviews with... -
Sexuality, Equality and Diversity by Diane Richardson 9780230275584
Booksplease Price: £43.33From individual experiences of prejudice to international political debate around equal rights, social attitudes towards sexuality and transgender equalities are evolving. This timely text traces... -
Lesbian and Gay Parenting: Securing Social and Educational Capital by Yvette Taylor 9780230202726
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book explores the intersections between class and sexuality in lesbians' and gay men's experiences of parenting and the everyday pathways navigated therein, from initial routes into parenting,... -
A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias by Angela Jones 9781137308597
Booksplease Price: £92.24This anthology is a symposium on queer space and queer utopias. Through the presentation of empirical work by contemporary queer theorists this book aims to create a critical dialogue about the... -
When Sex Became Gender by Shira Tarrant
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63When Sex Became Gender is a study of post-World War II feminist theory from the viewpoint of intellectual history. The key theme is that ideas about the social construction of gender have its origins... -
Judith Butler: From Norms to Politics Moya Lloyd (Loughborough University) 9780745626123
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34With the publication of her highly acclaimed and much-cited book Gender Trouble, Judith Butler became one of the most influential feminist theorists of her generation. Her theory of gender... -
Judith Butler: From Norms to Politics by Moya Lloyd 9780745626116
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £53.30With the publication of her highly acclaimed and much-cited book Gender Trouble, Judith Butler became one of the most influential feminist theorists of her generation. Her theory of gender... -
A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias by Angela Jones 9781349456048
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.56This anthology is a symposium on queer space and queer utopias. Through the presentation of empirical work by contemporary queer theorists this book aims to create a critical dialogue about the... -
The Sexual Citizen: Queer Politics and Beyond by Mr David Bell 9780745616544
Booksplease Price: £17.19The notion of citizenship, with its balancing of rights and responsibilities, has become a dominant way of articulating sexual politics today. In The Sexual Citizen, David Bell and Jon Binnie... -
Classical and Modern Social Theory by H Andersen 9780631212874
RRP: £128.95Booksplease Price: £119.73Classical and Modern Social Theory is comprehensive introduction to the field, covering a wide historical range of thinkers, from the classical to the postmodernist, as well as key themes in social... -
Sociology After the Crisis Charles C. Lemert 9781594510137
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Widely assigned and taught in senior capstone and social theory courses, Sociology After the Crisis offers the first systematic theory of social differences built on the sociological traditions by... -
Classical and Modern Social Theory Heine Anderson (University of Copenhagen) 9780631212881
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £34.01Classical and Modern Social Theory is comprehensive introduction to the field, covering a wide historical range of thinkers, from the classical to the postmodernist, as well as key themes in social... -
The Sexual Citizen: Queer Politics and Beyond by Mr David Bell 9780745616537
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80The notion of citizenship, with its balancing of rights and responsibilities, has become a dominant way of articulating sexual politics today. In The Sexual Citizen, David Bell and Jon Binnie... -
Bisexuality: Identities, Politics, and Theories by Surya Monro 9781137007308
Booksplease Price: £81.46This book provides an accessible introduction to bisexuality studies, set within the context of contemporary social theory and research. Drawing on interviews conducted in the UK and Colombia, it...